Regional Groups
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There are currently ten regional groups of the BSC – also see Regional Events and Archived Events
Loading…- Scotland
- Wales
- Northern Ireland
- North East
- Yorkshire and Humberside
- North West
- Midlands
- South (inc. London)
- South Coastal
- South West
– also see Regional Events
Scotland
Contact: Professor Michele Burman, University of Glasgow, at Michele.Burman@glasgow.ac.uk
The Scotland Branch membership consists of staff and postgraduate students from several Scottish Universities and those working in criminal justice policy and practice in national and local government, statutory agencies and the voluntary sector. The Branch has strong links with the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (SCCJR) and the Scottish Institute for Policing Research (SIPR), both of which are collaborative partnerships between several Scottish Universities.
University of Aberdeen
Abertay University
University of Dundee
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh Napier University
University of Glasgow
Glasgow Caledonian University
Heriot-Watt University
University of the Highlands and Islands
Queen Margaret University
Robert Gordon University
University of St Andrews
University of Stirling
University of Strathclyde
University of West Scotland
– also see Regional Events
Wales
Contact: Professor Martina Feilzer, Bangor University (m.feilzer@bangor.ac.uk)and Roxanna Dehaghani, Cardiff University (Fatemi-DehaghaniR@cardiff.ac.uk) and Michael Levi, Cardiff University (Levi@cardiff.ac.uk).
The Wales branch was launched at the end of 2007 (but was previously part of the Wales and West group).The main activity of the branch is a programme of seminars showcasing the most relevant and exciting research in criminology and criminal justice.
A range of speakers have presented at these seminars – ranging from local PhD students to established and eminent academics from in and outside Wales, such as Professor Rod Morgan, former Chairman of the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales, and Professor Pat Carlen, Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Criminology. More recently, Professor Steve Tombs discussed the aftermath and consequences of the Grenfell Tower tragedy at the University of South Wales and, at Bangor, Nicola Harding from Leeds Trinity University presented ‘You know what I mean…’ an auto-ethnographic account of co-produced research with criminalised women.
The audiences normally consist of academics, postgraduate students and some practitioners, such as local police officers and YOT staff. One of the aims in recent years has been to hold seminars at more Welsh universities and, pleasingly, the University of South Wales, Cardiff, Swansea and Newport and Bangor have hosted seminars.
Aberystwyth University
Bangor University
Cardiff Metropolitan University
Cardiff University
Glyndŵr University
The Open University in Wales
Swansea University
University of South Wales
University of Wales
University of Wales Trinity Saint David
– also see Regional Events
Northern Ireland
Contact: Graham Ellison at g.ellison@qub.ac.uk
The Branch membership consists of members from both the Law School and the Department of Sociology at Queen’s, as well as criminology and criminal justice academics at the University of Ulster. Branch activities also regularly attract practitioners from a wide array of statutory agencies and community groups from across Northern Ireland. The Branch also has very strong links to the annual Irish Criminology Conference.
Open University in Ireland
Queen’s University Belfast
Ulster University
– also see Regional Events
North East
For more information on the North East branch contact Alexandra Hall, Northumbria University: Alex.Hall@northumbria.ac.uk
Durham University
Newcastle University
Northumbria University
University of Sunderland
Teesside University
– also see Regional Events
Yorkshire and Humberside
Contact either of the co-convenors: Helen Johnston H.Johnston@hull.ac.uk or Suzanne Young s.young@leeds.ac.uk
University of Bradford
University of Huddersfield
University of Hull
University of Leeds
Leeds Beckett University
Leeds Trinity University
University of Sheffield
Sheffield Hallam University
University of York
York St John University
– also see Regional Events
North West
Contact either of the co-convenors: Professor Andrew Millie andrew.millie@edgehill.ac.uk or Professor Barry Goldson b.goldson@liverpool.ac.uk
Also, see their recent blog posting
The North West Branch of the BSC provides funding for a series of seminars across the region. In 2016 two successful events were held at Liverpool Hope University and Salford University (see archive).
Blackburn College
Lancaster University
Liverpool Hope University
Liverpool John Moores University
Manchester Metropolitan University
The University of Manchester
The University of Central Lancashire
University of Liverpool
University of Salford
Edge Hill University
University of Chester
University of Bolton
University of Cumbria
– also see Regional Events
Midlands
We currently have a call open for a new convenor for this group. Deadline for expressions of interest: September 30, 2019 Please email info@britsoccrim.org
Aston University
University of Birmingham
Birmingham City University
Coventry University
De Montfort University
Derby
Keele University
University of Leicester
University of Lincoln
Loughborough University
University of Northampton
University of Nottingham
Nottingham Trent University
Staffordshire University
University of Warwick
University of Worcester
– also see Regional Events
Contact Jennifer Fleetwood (J.Fleetwood@gold.ac.uk) and Maria Adams (m.n.adams@surrey.ac.uk)
Also, see their blog posting ‘Criminological Postcards from London’.
Imperial College London
University College London
King’s College London
London School of Economics and Political Science
Queen Mary, University of London
Royal Holloway University of London
SOAS – School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
City University London
Brunel University
Birkbeck College, University of London
Goldsmiths, University of London
Kingston University
London Metropolitan University
University of East London
University of Greenwich
University of Oxford
University of Reading
University of Surrey
Oxford Brookes University
University of Kent
Middlesex University
St Mary’s University, Twickenham
University of Cambridge
University of East Anglia
University of Suffolk
University of Essex
University of Hertfordshire
– also see Regional Events
South Coastal
Contact Jenny Fleming (j.fleming@soton.ac.uk)
Bournemouth University
University of Brighton
University of Sussex
University of Portsmouth
University of Southampton
Southampton Solent University
University of Winchester
– also see Regional Events
South West
Contact: Chair Dr Zoë James, Plymouth University, at Z.James@plymouth.ac.uk or Branch Secretary Dr Iain Channing iain.channing@plymouth.ac.uk
The South West branch was launched at the University of Plymouth Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies Symposium, ‘The Criminological Enterprise: Maximising Impact’, in 2009. The aim of the South West branch is to provide a forum for academics, students and practitioners to engage with criminological issues through a regular seminar series.
University of Bristol
University of Exeter
University of Bath
Bath Spa University
University of the West of England
University of Plymouth
Regional Events
- Scotland branch
- Wales branch
- Northern Ireland branch
- North East branch
- Yorkshire and Humberside branch
- North West branch
- Midlands branch
- South branch (inc. London)
- South Coastal branch
- South West branch
Events are typically scheduled from September to the beginning of July each year. Watch out for new events being announced below.
Wales Branch
Dr Ross McGarry – University of Liverpool
Wed, 6 November, 1pm
Bangor University, Main Arts, Council Chamber
Visualising Liminal Military Landscapes: an Autoethnographic Study of Armed Forces Day in the United Kingdom
Armed Forces Day is a civil-military event in the UK introduced into the public calendar during 2009 following recommendations made from The Report of Inquiry into National Recognition of Our Armed Forces, designed ‘to provide a focus for media-directed initiatives on defence and Service issues, and an occasion for scheduling public events involving the Forces, including Open Days and ‘freedom’ parades’ (Davies et al 2008, 7). Despite the significance of these events requiring the situating and performance of military values, personnel, equipment and activities within otherwise civic spaces, academic research and critical commentary into the implementation and development of Armed Forces Day is limited (Sangster 2017; Palmer 2017; McGarry 2019; Rech and Yarwood 2019). Influenced by autoethnographic work from critical human geography focussing on the materiality, spatiality and embodied experiences of military airshows (inter alia Rech 2015; Rech and Williams 2016; Rech 2019), and seeking to extend some insights from the seminal text ‘Military Geographies’ (Woodward 2004), the aim of this paper is to observe the development of Armed Forces Day as not only one of the most significant outcomes of the National Recognition of Our Armed Forces report, but also as a feat of socio-political engineering that transforms otherwise civic spaces into what are argued to become, “liminal military landscapes”.
Any questions please contact the regional convenor, Martina Feilzer m.feilzer@bangor.ac.uk
Free to attend
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Co-organised by the Centre for Crime, Law and Justice
Dr Lizzie Seal – University of Sussex
Wed 19 February, 3.30pm
Emotion, race and gender in cases of partner-murder in England and Wales, 1900-39
Abstract: This talk examines eleven capital cases of men of colour sentenced to death in England and Wales for intimate murders of white British women, 1900-39. It argues that such cases enable analysis of the prevailing emotional norms of this era and the ways in which these were shaped by race, gender and class. Perceptions of intimate relationships as legitimate or illegitimate – judgments about who should feel what about whom – related to understandings of citizenship. In revealing the emotional norms at play in cases of murder, it is possible to illustrate how the criminal justice system governed through emotion.
Bio: Dr Lizzie Seal is Reader in Criminology in the School of Law, Politics and Sociology at the University of Sussex. Her research is in the areas of historical and cultural criminology. She was Principal Investigator on ‘Race, Racialisation and the Death Penalty in England and Wales, 1900-65’ [Leverhulme RPG-2016-352], 2016-2018 and is currently PI on ‘Reforming British Law and Policy on the Global Death Penalty’ [British Academy IC3\100170]. Lizzie is the author of four monographs, most recently (with Maggie O’Neill, 2019) Imaginative Criminology: Of Spaces Past, Present and Future, as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters.
Any questions please contact the regional convenor, Roxanna Fatemi-Dehaghani Fatemi-DehaghaniR@cardiff.ac.uk
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Co-organised by the Centre for Crime, Law and Justice
Dr Layla Skinns, University of Sheffield
Wed 11 March, 4pm
A room with a view? Material conditions and the ‘representational’ inside police detention
Abstract:
In a recent Trip Advisor review of a police custody block in South Yorkshire, the reviewer gave it only half a star and complained that “it was nothing but four walls and a mattress”. This illustrates how material conditions matter to those arrested and detained by the police whilst an investigation is conducted and a decision is taken about what to do next with the case. The purpose of this paper is to examine the ‘representational’ quality of these material conditions of police custody. Whether detainees have access to natural light and are detained in facilities which appear well maintained conveys to detainees something about how they are perceived by police authorities, by the state and by wider society, meaning that if a custody facility appears well looked after it suggests to detainees that their treatment is likely to follow suit. These ideas are examined using findings from a five-year ESRC-funded mixed-methods study of ‘good’ police custody which showed that detainee experiences of different types of dignity – linked to feelings of equal worth, autonomy and public decency – were significantly informed by their experiences of the material conditions of police custody. These arguments are also grounded in prison studies research and theorisation. As a result, I also reflect in my presentation on the boundaries between police studies and prison studies, and the possibilities and limitations of greater dialogue between scholars in each field.
Bio: Layla Skinns is a Reader in the Centre for Criminological Research, School of Law, University of Sheffield, having formerly worked and studied at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge and the Institute for Criminal Policy Research, King’s College London. She has a longstanding interest in police and policing, in particular in how policing agents use their authority. A key focus of her research has been on police detention, in England and Wales, but also in other parts of the Anglophone world. In this setting, she is interested in police powers and their relationship with the law, police cultures and police discretion, and furthermore, how this impacts on equality and on state-citizen relations. She is also interested in how the public – particularly detainees – perceive the police, which links her research to discussions about police legitimacy and ‘good’ policing.
Any questions please contact the regional convenor, Roxanna Fatemi-Dehaghani Fatemi-DehaghaniR@cardiff.ac.uk
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‘Public Criminology Through Public Education’
April 23, 2020
This interdisciplinary event brings together academics from Criminology, Arts & Humanities, Education, and practitioners from the Criminal Justice System to share innovation in learning and teaching. The event is joint-funded by the British Society of Criminology Learning and Teaching Network and the Welsh Branch of the British Society of Criminology, and hosted by Swansea University’s School of Law.
See the BSC Learning and Teaching Network page for more details.
Future events to be announced
Yorkshire and Humberside Branch
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Midlands branch
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Southern branch (in association with the Mannheim Centre London School of Economics)
Nov 13, LSE (NAB 1.07)
Magnus Hoernqvist (Stockholm University/Mannheim Centre Visiting Fellow)
The Pleasure of Punishment
Chair: Amanda Sheely (LSE)
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December 11, LSE (Alumni Theatre)
Jo Phoenix (Open University).
Youth, Justice and Community: An Alternative Vision for Dealing with Youth Crime
Chair: Janet Foster (LSE)
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January 22, 2020
LSE (Wolfson Theatre)
The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales
Paul Rock (LSE), with special guests (TBC)
Chair: Tim Newburn (LSE)
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February 12
LSE (NAB 1.07)
Living in hostile environments: Illegality assemblages and everyday experiences of ‘illegality’
Nando Sigona (University of Birmingham)
Chair: Coretta Phillips (LSE)
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March 11
LSE (NAB 1.07)
Constraints and opportunities in transnational drug markets:
A social network analysis of cocaine and heroin supply to Europe
Giulia Berlusconi (University of Surrey)
Chair: Mike Shiner (LSE) (TBC)
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May 13
LSE (Alumni Theatre)
Young Men’s Experiences of Long-Term Imprisonment
Rachel Tynan (Goldsmiths)
Chair: Johann Koehler (LSE)
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June 10
LSE (Wolfson Theatre)
From King’s Cross to Soho:
Innovative approaches to studying gentrification, gender, sex work and space
Erin Sanders-McDonagh (University of Kent), Lucy Neville (University of Leicester)
and Magali Peyrefitte (Middlesex University)
Chair: Janet Foster (LSE)
All seminars begin at 18.30
(Doors open at 18.00 for refreshments
South Coastal (in association with the Institute of Criminal Justice Research, University of Southampton)
Wednesday November 6, 2019 – 4pm
Building 58, Room 2097 University of Southampton
“There’s a recognition that we’ve got to do something different”: a socio-legal analysis of police decision-making in adult conditional cautions.
Cerys Gibson (University of Nottingham)
Light Refreshments Available
ALL WELCOME
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November 25, 2019 5pm in BG11 (Bournemouth House)
Bournemouth University’s Women’s Academic Network, Centre for Seldom Heard Voices and the British Society of Criminology’s South Coastal branch.
Criminal Justice Responses to Maternal Filicide: Judging the Failed Mother
Dr Emma Milne (Plymouth University).
Abstract: Women who kill their newborn children pose significant challenges to criminal justice – they have acted in a way that has led to the death of a child, and yet they often have substantial vulnerabilities that influenced their behaviour in the lead-up to the death. Analysis of court transcripts in such cases illustrates that concern of the courts lies not only in the killing of the child, but in the women’s failure to act as an “appropriate” mother and thus a suitable woman. These cases provide a lens through which to analyse the gendered assumptions that surround reproduction, including women’s sexual activity and behaviour during pregnancy. This presentation will explore the gendered experiences of these offenders and the criminal justice responses to their behaviour.
This event is free for staff, students and colleagues: all are welcome but please book via the Eventbrite link so that we can ensure sufficient space and catering.
https://judgingthefailedmother.eventbrite.co.uk
Visitors are also welcome to join us at a local venue for further discussion and debate afterwards.
Future events to be announced.
South West branch
Research Seminar at University of Plymouth
December 12, 2019, 1400-1600. Babbage Building 410.
Guest speakers:
Dr Alexandra Fanghanel, University of Greenwich, The Pillory and the Ban: BDSM, rape culture and sex positive imagination
Dr Ben Colliver, Birmingham City University, Re-imagining Hate Crime: The Role of (In)Visibility in Hate Crime Victimisation
Free to attend. Please email iain.channing@plymouth.ac.uk in advance to confirm attendance.
Future events to be announced.
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